Behrouz Afagh works for the BBC World Service as Head of Middle East, and is responsible for BBC's TV, radio, and online in Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Urdu, Pashto, Uzbek and Kyrgyz. He was born and brought up in Iran and studied at Tehran University and then at the University of Surrey in Britain. He has lived in Britain since 1978, and has reported and written extensively on Iran, Afghanistan and Central Asia.